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The John Deere way The John Deere way David Magee The John Deere Way presents timeless business lessons from one of America's top brands. Even as many American manufacturers struggle with low-cost foreign competition, John Deere has not only prevail… OL12355023W
The big lie The big lie Anthony Bianco Hewlett Packard is an American icon, the largest information technology company in the world. The bedrock of Silicon Valley, it employs more than 300,000 people, its market capitalization is in exces… OL15090690W
Housing Policy in Europe Housing Policy in Europe Paul Balchin Housing Policy in Europe provides a comprehensive introduction to the economic, political and social issues of housing across the continent. The changing policy and practice of housing in fifteen cou… OL15175209W
Housing and Social Change Housing and Social Change Ray Forrest This book aims to provide a wide-ranging exploration of the key contemporary relationships between social change and housing. It is both policy-oriented and theoretical and draws on a group of intern… OL15177806W
Leadership ensemble Leadership ensemble Harvey Seifter,Peter Economy "The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra has earned rave reviews as one of the premier musical ensembles in the world. Recently, it has also attracted the attention and admiration of the corporate world. As th… OL16028512W
Raising eyebrows Raising eyebrows Dal LaMagna "The often hilarious and sometimes poignant story behind Dal LaMagna's rise in the beauty industry By the time LaMagna graduated from the Harvard Business School, his entrepreneurial activities-incl… OL16121050W
Gender codes Gender codes Thomas J. Misa The computing profession is facing a serious gender crisis. Women are abandoning the computing field. This book explains the complex social and cultural processes at work in gender and computing toda… OL16241369W
International heritage and historic building conservation International heritage and historic building conservation Zeynep Aygen "The majority of books in English on historic building conservation and heritage preservation training are often restricted to Western architecture and its origins. Consequently, the history of build… OL16637341W
World population policies 2007 World population policies 2007 United Nations. Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs. Population Division. This report delineates Governments' views and policies concerning population and development for 195 countries. In particular, it itemizes policies in the areas of population size and growth, populat… OL16919182W
Forms of enterprise in 20th century Italy Forms of enterprise in 20th century Italy Michelangelo Vasta,Andrea Colli Taking an historical perspective, this unique book highlights the evolution of the many diverse forms of business enterprise, and discusses the contribution of these different types of firm to the ec… OL16921970W
Getting the Bugs Out Getting the Bugs Out David Kiley After a wild ride of ups and downs for almost three decades, Volkswagen has regained its stature as one of America's most beloved auto makers. In Getting the Bugs Out, journalist and auto industry ex… OL16928343W
Drowning in oil Drowning in oil Loren C. Steffy The first in-depth examination of how a lack of corporate responsibility and government oversight led to the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. On April 20, 2010, a series of explosions rock… OL16943224W
Dark Territory Dark Territory Fred M. Kaplan "An important, disturbing, and gripping history" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), the never-before-told story of the computer scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White House policymakers who inven… OL17639846W
Food tyrants Food tyrants Nicole Faires When author and homesteader Nicole Faires decided to retrofit an old school bus and tour America's small farms with her husband and two small children, she expected to learn a lot, be inspired, and h… OL17924946W
Eat the city Eat the city Robin Shulman New York is not a city for growing and manufacturing food. It?s a money and real estate city, with less naked earth and industry than high-rise glass and concrete.?? Yet in this intimate, visceral, a… OL18176417W
The historical origins of terrorism in America The historical origins of terrorism in America Robert D. Kumamoto "When we think of American terrorism, it is modern, individual terrorists such as Timothy McVeigh that typically spring to mind. But terrorism has existed in America since the earliest days of the co… OL20957480W
Police officers Police officers Julie Murray Kids will learn about police officers and what they do. OL24421096W
Publishing and using cultural heritage linked data on the semantic Web Publishing and using cultural heritage linked data on the semantic Web Eero Hyvönen Cultural Heritage (CH) data is syntactically and semantically heterogeneous, multilingual, semantically rich, and highly interlinked. It is produced in a distributed, open fashion by museums, librari… OL24809633W
Something for Nothing Something for Nothing Jackson Lears,T. J. Jackson Lears Offers a thoroughly researched discussion of how luck, chance, and gambling have shaped and defined the national character of America, even while conventional wisdom has dictated that perseverance, i… OL7988117W
Google Google Virginia A. Scott It's the American dream—start a company, make a fortune, and retire early. But to become multimillionaires in their twenties, as Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin did, boggles the mind. All … OL9879831W
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